Results.
7 judgments found.
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| May 2001 |
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Employer breached statutory and common-law duties by failing to provide insulating gloves and safe work measures, causing severe injury and amputation.
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Labour/employer’s duty of care — Factories (Electricity) Regulations s.28 — failure to provide insulating gloves — breach of duty and causation — defence under Factories Act s.71(2) rejected — damages for amputation and loss of earning capacity.
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28 May 2001 |
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Whether applications for judgment on admission are interlocutory and when correspondence amounts to an unequivocal admission.
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Civil procedure — Judgment on admission — Whether interlocutory or final — Admissibility of statements of information and belief in affidavits (Order 41 r 5) — Requirement to disclose sources and grounds — Admissions in correspondence — Discretion to grant judgment on admission.
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28 May 2001 |
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Labour disputes under the Employment Act must be commenced in the Industrial Relations Court absent exceptional circumstances.
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18 May 2001 |
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Applicant's challenge to an arbitration award for wanting extra damages was dismissed for lack of misconduct and procedural basis.
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Arbitration Act s.3 — arbitrators' authority and umpire appointment; no appeal from arbitrators' award; s.24(2) challenge; desire to reform award insufficient; no misconduct found.
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14 May 2001 |
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Court stayed action 90 days where former director lost authority to instruct counsel and died; counsel lacked company mandate.
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Company law — authority of director to instruct counsel — change of director and counsel — representation without company authority — personal loss vs company loss — stay pending enquiries into deceased director's estate.
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11 May 2001 |
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Applicant’s assertion of legitimate expectation and Wednesbury unreasonableness failed; decision remitted for reconsideration with reasons.
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Administrative law — Judicial review of tribunal decision — Legitimate expectation — Requirement of clear, unambiguous promise or established practice — Wednesbury unreasonableness — Duty to give reasons; remit for reconsideration.
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7 May 2001 |
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Court found mayor and police guilty of contempt for disobeying an injunction and unjustifiably dispersing a public meeting.
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Civil contempt — disobedience of injunction restraining disruption of public meeting — mens rea in contempt — validity and sufficiency of penal notice and service — police reliance on prevention of disorder/superior orders — suspended custodial sentence to protect freedom of assembly.
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5 May 2001 |